News on SSDs

Online News about SSD Drive Development and New Products

Intel drops price on SSDs (V3.co.uk via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Intel is cutting the price on its solid-state hard drive (SSD) models.

Intel drops price on SSDs (vnunet.com)
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Monday 15 March 2010 at 22:32:00 40GB drives will cost just $125 Intel is cutting the price on its solid-state hard drive (SSD) models. The company said that it would be offering a 40GB SSD model at a cos...

A trend? Intel releases $125 'affordable' SSD (Macworld UK)
Intel Corp. said today that it is shipping a $125 SSD called the X25-V Value SATA SSD. Affordable is the word Intel wants associated with this drive, but the price per gigabyte is the same as that of its higher-capacity consumer SSDs.

Pliant's SSDs are awesome, says Pliant (The Register)
You said. So? Solid state drive startup Pliant has announced a benchmark saying its SSDs rock - as it said back in September. Why is it bothering to tell us?… The power of collaboration within unified communications

Intel wins top spots in SSD storage drive ranking (Macworld UK)
Chip giant Intel won first place in a ranking of flash memory-based Solid State Drives (SSDs), in which the researcher, DRAMeXchange Technology, pilloried the industry over the wide disparity of quality among the storage devices.

Pillar juices flash drive box (The Register)
Reliability boost roadmap Pillar Data Axiom storage arrays can go a whole lot faster, use less energy and be more reliable, thanks to a range of new features from flash drive enclosures to pre-emptive copies.… The power of collaboration within uni...

3PAR tiering faster than FAST (The Register)
Supports STEC SSD too Faster than EMC's FAST: you can order 3PAR's automatic data moving across storage tiers software right now. 3PAR is also adding solid state storage to its arrays.… What is your recession sales strategy?

STEC becalmed as Fusion-io streaks ahead (The Register)
EMC over-ordering breaks STEC's run Comment Conditions are variable in the solid state drive (SSD) world, with STEC lagging while Fusion-io has the wind in its sails.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Build a mini PC with high-quality audio in mind (Personal Computer World)
I’m building a mini PC designed as a source for high-quality audio. It will be small, quiet, consume minimal power, and, crucially, be controlled without the need for an external monitor, keyboard or mouse.

FalconStor and Violin get cache in hand (The Register)
SAN accelerator is go FalconStor and Violin have come up with a flash-based SAN accelerator featuring a dedicated cache area to speed up writes.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing


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